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Management of Cold‐Induced Urticaria During Cardiac Surgery
Author(s) -
Booth Karen,
Parissis H.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2010.01176.x
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery
General body cooling and local hypothermia during cardiopulmonary bypass in theory could precipitate a severe systemic anaphylaxis in the case of cold‐induced urticaria. We present a case of cold‐induced urticaria and describe how preanesthetic single‐dose steroid, H 2 antagonist, and antihistamine, normothermic retrograde, and antegrade cardioplegia administration were all employed with normothermic conditions in the prevention of life‐threatening anaphylaxis during coronary artery bypass grafting . (J Card Surg 2011;26:158‐159)